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buildings, digitalisation, flexible plans, and the increasing agility of care facilities as a suitable response to the pandemic’ – by Ann Vandycke, Architect, and director of Technical Facilities, Mintus in Belgium, and ‘As-built Drawings with BIM’ – by Frédéric Foret, Draughtsman-Designer, and Guillaume Ledebt, Legacy Engineer manager, of the University Hospital of Caen.
Estate Management An Estate Management session will then include presentations on ‘A Legacy Hospital: Medical and Legacy Challenges’, by Alain Benini, Architect, and head of Architecture and Project Management in Pre-Work Diagnosis at University Hospitals of Lyon, and ‘The City of Health and Research: an innovative project’ by Susanna Azzini, freelance hospital engineer, and Mauro Rossi, hospital architect and director of the Technical Department at the Neurological Institute, Milan. ‘Revaluing hospitality in contemporary hospitals: points of attention in the context of chronic diseases’, will be the subject of an address by Coline Periano, assistant project manager at the Chair of Philosophy at the University Hospital of Saint-Ouen.
Energy management in the spotlight An Energy Management-themed workshop will see David Carette, head of the Technical Department at Sint Andries Ziekenhuis in Tielt in Belgium, discuss ‘The hunger for energy in times of energy savings and high energy prices, while new departments are being built’, while two senior personnel from the Spanish hospital will discuss ‘An example of energy efficiency in hospitals over 40 years’ old’ – with a specific focus on the Mostoles University Hospital. Three varied presentations in a day
two ‘Architectural and design’ workshop will include a look by Michaël Jaconelli, Engineer in charge of Operations, University Hospitals of Lyon (Hospices Civils de Lyon), at the new ‘Tropical and
The French capital’s Palais des Congrès de Paris will be the venue for June’s 10th European Conference on Healthcare Engineering.
Infectious Diseases Department building’ at L’Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon, and two Healthcare Concept developers at Saint Gobain Ecophon, Anne Pollet and Maria Quinn, discussing the ‘Acoustic and modular conception of an operating theatre in Sweden’.
Climate change considerations A day two ‘Sustainability’ workshop will include presentations on ‘Wood and health – how to reconcile these two imperatives for our environment’, ‘Hospital refurbishments’, by two architects from French practice, Groupe-6, and a look at ‘Energy: climate change, scarcity of resources, coping between adaptation and mitigation’, by Camille Devroedt, Sustainable Development Real Estate Project manager at ANAP, and Yoann Leloutre, Project engineer, Regional Energy Efficiency & Transition Coordinator, Nantes. Rounding off the conference’s
second day will be a session on Project Management. Here, Michel Rémon, Urban Architect, founder, and manager, at Atelier Michel Rémon & Associés, and Gaëtan Peeters, Project director, VK Architects & Engineers, will focus on ‘Determining the cost of a hospital building’, and Valery Brunel, head of the Works Investments Department at University Hospitals of Lyon, will look at ‘A clear definition
of roles and responsibilities within the project manager / operation duo’.
Energy and engineering The day three conference programme will start with an ‘Energy and engineering’ session, with Dennis Wald, senior Engineering Expert, Qualification & Validation, of Chemgineering Switzerland, speaking on ‘Gases and gas distribution systems in the healthcare sector – classification of borderline therapeutic products’, and Florent Donnard, Fluid Energy Thermal Service engineer at AIA Ingénierie, and Jean-Marie Melo, Thermal engineer and environmentalist, HVAC Service, at the same business, focusing on ‘Towards fossil-free energy production for hospitals?’
Project management in healthcare A simultaneous ‘Project management’ workshop will see Rashmi Karolina Werning, director, Healthcare Consulting Delfoi Oy, address ‘Advanced dimensioning framework that supports future service and workplace concepts in hospital outpatient departments – examples from Finnish hospital development projects’, while Bashar Hassan, architect and Infrastructure coordinator of La Chaine de l’Espoir in Iraq, and Elsa Negre, head of the Infrastructure and Biomedical Department there, will speak on ‘A new hope and engineering challenge in a post- conflict zone’. The conference will be complemented
by an exhibition, with the event offering ample opportunity for interaction among delegates, speakers, and other industry figures from across the European healthcare engineering sector. The above text gives only flavour of
This architectural render shows part of the new Tower 7 extension building at the University Hospital of Liège.
the presentations; there are too many to include details on all. For the full event programme, plus information on registration and accommodation, visit
https://eche-paris2023.com/en An ‘early bird’ rate for attendance applies until 19 February.
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Courtesy the Palais des Congrès de Paris
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